Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday sealed his ousting of onetime ally Robert Mugabe with an election win that the opposition have furiously contested. Tension builds following Mugabe’s sacking of Emmerson Mnangagwa as his vice president in early November 2017, a move seen as positioning the veteran’s president’s wife to become his successor. Army tanks take up positions around the capital overnight November 14-15 and Mugabe is put under house arrest.

Thousands of aborigines are estimated to have been murdered in 500 massacres across Australia from European settlement in 1788 until the mid-20th century, researchers said on Friday, as the country continues to struggle with its bloody colonial past.

Two Palestinians were killed on Saturday as Israel unleashed a wave of air strikes against the Gaza Strip, while scores of rockets were fired back from the Hamas-run territory. The Palestinian teenagers, aged 15 and 16, were killed when an Israeli strike hit a building they were near in the west of Gaza City, the enclave’s health ministry said. Fifteen people have been wounded across Gaza, the ministry said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 92-year-old man beaten repeatedly in the face with a brick in Los Angeles on Wednesday thanked the passer-by who took video of the aftermath of the attack that may have helped lead to an arrest in the case.

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico (Reuters) – For the past 12 years, Mexico has fought violent drug gangs by deploying thousands of police, soldiers and intelligence officers to crack down on cartels and their leaders.

It is one of the lasting images of Mexico’s election campaign: as a Congressional candidate poses for a selfie with a supporter, a man in a baseball cap calmly approaches and shoots him in the back of the head. Fernando Puron, who was running for Congress in the northern state of Coahuila, is one of 136 politicians murdered since candidate registration for Sunday’s elections in Mexico opened in September, according to the consulting firm Etellekt. It is by far the bloodiest Mexican campaign on record, as the violence gripping the country has exploded massively into the political world.

At least one man faced charges Monday in the murder of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, a Bronx teen whose dreams of being an NYPD detective ended when he was hacked to death by a group of youths and left to die on a city sidewalk, police said. Horrifying security video from a bodega shows the attack.

At least nine people were killed and 45 were wounded in shooting incidents in the nation’s third-largest city this weekend, an ugly turn for Chicago which had been making progress in stemming the scourge of shootings and murders in the first half of 2018.